Perhaps a toggle key like this in the UI
CTRL-I Toggle between showing/hiding message group descriptions
Then if the user pressed enter on the displayed short description text Mystic would clear the screen an display the extended text description supplied by the sysop e.g. fsxnet.txt
I love this idea. But I have a spin on it.
The thing I am struggling with is where to put that information on the screen. If I were to put it down where the "Tagged: 0" etc is, there
would be one or two lines taken away from the actual scrolling window
and the description would have to be less than around 150 characters.
What if we instead had the option to associate a display file (or Python or MPL script) to each group. Then the user could press a key and if
that file or script exists it will be displayed or executed. This would allow so much more flexibility, because you could even build a script to allow people to view group information and download the FSX infopack
right from the description, or telnet to the hub BBS or whatever ideas
you can come up with.
Or if you're not the scripting type you can make a nice ANSI file with tons of information. Maybe even replace the file with an entire menu
and allow them to download the infopack or do whatever without
scripting. But more to come on that idea hopefully ;)
We can't use CTRL+I because that is what tags message bases (CTRL-I is
the TAB key) but maybe CTRL+D is free. I really love this idea.
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